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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FNA40

1975-05-22 HYANNIS, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N18B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE GVII-G500

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

P&W CANADA PW814GA

Seats / Engines

9 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20190626

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A13E6C

Registrant of record

BANK OF UTAH TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

SMITH MINI · N18B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BARNSTABLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000DSA-1

Total time

196 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,500

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ABLE BTWN 2 POLES ACROSS ROUTE 134.

Investigator remarks

WHILE ATMTG MAINTAIN VIS GND CTC R GR STRUCK A C

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1188. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1188.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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